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1801  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: June 01, 2015, 03:43:20 AM
Paul: Some in D.C. hoping for terror attack to blame him

Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday evening that some people in Washington are “secretly” hoping for a terrorist attack to hit the U.S. to make him look bad.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Paul railed against those accusing him of jeopardizing national security by stalling efforts to renew surveillance programs.

“People here in town think I’m making a huge mistake,” Paul said. “Some of them I think secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me.”

More...http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/paul-some-in-dc-hoping-for-terror-attack-to-blame-him-118474.html#ixzz3bmAASx5X
1802  Other / Politics & Society / Japanese Blowjob Prices Getting Hit by Deflation on: June 01, 2015, 02:23:31 AM
Despite proclamations by Kuroda, Abe, and various other elected (and unelected) officials that the 'deflation mindset' is gone from Japan, it appears one segment of the population is keenly aware of the ongoing deflationary market for one staple item. Just as we warned was occurring in America, it appears the cost of blow-jobs has gone from just-plain-cheap to "well, why not?" Cheesy As one intrepid reporter ventured into the Otsuka red-light district of Toshima Ward discovered, the fee for an oral session at a “pink salon” starts as low as 2,000 yen ($16!).

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On Friday, data released by the internal affairs ministry indicated that Japan’s annual inflation rate for April was zero. The report showed that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revival plan is being hampered by falling prices, particularly for fuel and consumer electronics. The report did not mention blow-jobs, but, according to Takarajima (July), prices for such services in Tokyo remain low as the overall commercial sex industry continues to face hard times.
 
A writer for the magazine travels to the Otsuka red-light district of Toshima Ward to discover that the fee for an oral session at a “pink salon” starts as low as 2,000 yen.

More...http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-31/abenomics-fail-japanese-slack-jawed-oral-sex-price-deflation
1803  Other / Politics & Society / Obama Announces Draconian, Unconstitutional Gun Regs by Executive Fiat on: June 01, 2015, 01:41:17 AM
“It’s clear President Obama is beginning his final assault on our Second Amendment rights by forcing his anti-gun agenda on honest law-abiding citizens through executive force,” Luke O’Dell, the vice president of political affairs at the National Association for Gun Rights, told The Hill.

In particular, the Justice Dept.’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) wants to revive a 1998 proposal that would ban those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from owning a gun.

“That could be a person who spanked his kid, or yelled at his wife, or slapped her husband,” Michael Hammond, legislative counsel for the Gun Owners of America, stated.


The ATF also wants to revoke gun rights from those the government declares “mentally unfit,” which is easy to do because the official diagnostic system for mental disorders in the U.S., the DSM-5, is so broad that almost every form of human behavior can be “diagnosed” as some type of mental illness.

For example, in 2012 the Department of Veteran Affairs sent out letters to veterans stating that based on “evidence,” their “competency” was under review and if the bureaucrats decided to rate the veterans “incompetent,” they would be prohibited from “purchasing, possessing, receiving or transporting a firearm or ammunition.”

“The letter provides no specifics on the reasons for the proposed finding of incompetency; just that is based on a determination by someone in the VA,” Constitutional attorney Michael Connelly, J.D. wrote on the subject.

The National Rifle Association warned that such regulations “creates disincentives for those who need mental health treatment to seek it, increasing whatever risks are associated with untreated mental illness.”

“A person who experienced a temporary reaction to a traumatic event or who has trouble handling household finances may well be treated the same as a violent psychopath,” the NRA said.

More...http://www.infowars.com/obama-announces-draconian-unconstitutional-gun-regs-by-executive-fiat/
1804  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: June 01, 2015, 12:00:28 AM
Rand Paul's Army Gathers in the Capitol to Help Him Block Patriot Act

Shortly before 5 p.m., when Rand Paul took the Senate floor, his allies outnumbered his opponents. Michigan Representative Justin Amash and Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie sat in benches at the back, silently rooting on the Kentucky senator, whom they'd already endorsed for president. At least 30 young people wearing red and black "Stand With Rand" T-shirts sat transfixed in the public gallery. No supporter of the Patriot Act or the USA Freedom Act stayed around for Paul's opening speech of the debate. The "Stand With Rand" crowd did.

"The president Obama who once was against the Patriot Act, the President Obama who once believed in the Fourth Amendment, is the same person now scooping up all your records illegally," said Paul.

When the senator wrapped, and photographers scrambled to find him, the young supporters stayed in their seats. They were anticipating a 6 p.m. round of votes that could gauge the support Paul had for blocking reauthorization of spying programs. Amash and Massie ambled into the hallway, a place they were ready to spend much of the night if the Senate passed a bill and threw it to the House.

"Technically, the House is able to act," said Amash.

"There can't be unanimous consent if one person objects," said Massie.

"And we would object," said Amash.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-31/rand-paul-s-army-gathers-in-the-capitol-to-help-him-block-patriot-act
1805  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: May 31, 2015, 11:51:59 PM
Rand Paul blasts PATRIOT Act Surveillance on Senate Floor During Last Minute Debate
Section 215 is set to expire tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LGVflk4Pww

"Get a warrant!"

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor Sunday afternoon as debate wrapped up to reiterate, very, very loudly, his opposition to renewing the mass data collection authorities of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. He had argue with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over Senate procedures first to get permission to speak. McCain, for his part, argued that the increase in terrorism (he said the Middle East is literally burning) is proof that we need Section 215 "more than ever," despite the lack of evidence that the mass collection under Section 215 actually contributed in any successful efforts to halt terrorist attacks.

Paul noted that "the right to be left alone" is one of our most cherished of rights. And in response to senators like Dan Coats (R-Ind.) saying Americans had been deceived by surveillance opponents, Paul reminded the Senate floor and C-Span viewers, "The head of intelligence agency lied to the American people, and he still works there." And he also reminded the Senate that a federal court has already ruled that Section 215 doesn't actually authorize mass metadata collection about Americans. Paul's position: Want to get records about Americans suspsected of crimes? Get a warrant. Paul is tweeting out some quotes from his speech here.

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http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/31/rand-paul-blasts-patriot-act-surveillanc
1806  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: May 31, 2015, 11:37:41 PM
Paul: 'I’m not going to take it anymore'

Sen. Rand Paul burst back into Washington on Sunday evening making clear that he is not relenting in his battle to hobble the Patriot Act.

“Are we going to so blithely give up our freedom? Are we going to so blindly go along and take it?” the Kentucky Republican and presidential candidate said from the Senate floor, raising his voice to reach the approximately two dozen supporters wearing “Stand with Rand” t-shirts in the chamber gallery. 

“I’m not going to take it anymore,” he added. “I don’t think the American people are going to take it anymore.”

Paul spoke minutes after an altercation with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a frequent sparring partner over the years who accused the Kentucky Republican of not understanding Senate rules.

The Senate is holding a rare Sunday session on National Security Agency legislation in large part because of Paul, who more than a week ago objected to a short-term extension of the Patriot Act.

Paul also appears intent on unilaterally forcing the three provisions of the Patriot Act to expire at midnight, by preventing the Senate from voting on reform legislation until later in the week.

Backers of legislation to renew the Patriot Act provisions but end the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records — known as the USA Freedom Act — appeared confident heading into Sunday that they had the 60 votes necessary to proceed.

But Paul can still the stop the bill dead in its tracks — at least temporarily.

The Senate needs unanimous consent of the chamber to begin voting on a second procedural step on Sunday evening, without waiting until 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

Paul’s opposition is likely to mean they don’t get it, forcing the Senate over the midnight deadline and killing the three legal measures.

Paul appears primed to chip away at the powers of the National Security Agency (NSA), which he has described as illegal and unconstitutional.

“This is a debate over the Bill of Rights,” he said. “This is a debate over the Fourth Amendment. This is a debate over your right to be left alone.”

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/243574-paul-im-not-going-to-take-it-anymore
1807  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: May 31, 2015, 11:30:37 PM
Senate Votes to Consider House Bill on Surveillance

WASHINGTON — In a rare Sunday night session, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to begin a debate on a bill passed by the House to curtail a national security surveillance program approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But the law that authorized the program was set to expire at midnight in the face of continuing opposition from Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky.

The 77-to-17 vote was a remarkable turnabout — grudgingly approved by the majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, a fellow Kentucky Republican — just a week after the Senate narrowly turned the bill away at his behest. Mr. McConnell, in a desperate attempt to keep the surveillance program going, encouraged senators to vote for a bill that he still found deficient.

“I remain determined to working toward the best outcome for the American people possible under the circumstances,” Mr. McConnell said. “This is where we are, colleagues — a House-passed bill with some serious flaws, and an inability to get a short-term extend to improve the House bill.”

Mr. Paul, whom Mr. McConnell has endorsed as a presidential candidate, made it clear that he would use his procedural weapon — the words “I object” — to ensure that provisions of the law that the government has been using to sweep up vast amounts of telephone data go away, at least temporarily. He said he would decline to let Mr. McConnell move to a rapid passage of the bill, which requires the consent of every senator, before midnight.

More...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/politics/senate-nsa-surveillance-usa-freedom-act.html
1808  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: May 31, 2015, 11:23:45 PM
JUDGE SETS TRIAL FOR RICO CLAIMS AGAINST CLINTONS

A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial for January for a case charging Bill and Hillary Clinton with RICO violations.

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations case was filed by Larry Klayman, of Freedom Watch, who alleges over the last decade, the Clintons have participated in “acts” that constitute a “criminal enterprise” that was designed to enrich them.

WND reported earlier this year when the case was filed that it alleged actions by Hillary and Bill Clinton, in coordination with their family foundation, constituted RICO crimes.

Klayman for years has been a Washington watchdog, having engaged Bill Clinton in court battles during his presidency. He’s also taken on terror interests and foreign influences in the United States, and just over the last year or so has won a federal court judgment against the National Security Agency’s spy-on-Americans program as well as bringing a case against Barack Obama over his amnesty-by-executive-memo strategy.

According to Klayman, the Clintons, through mail and wire fraud and false statements, misappropriated documents which he was entitled to receive and possess under the Freedom of Information Act regarding Hillary Clinton’s involvement in releasing Israeli war and cyber-warfare plans and practices.

Hillary Clinton orchestrated this release to harm and thwart Israeli plans to preemptively attack Iranian nuclear sites to stop the Islamic nation’s march to producing atomic weapons, according to Klayman.

The claim also explains Klayman used the nation’s FOIA to try to get details from the State Department regarding waivers to do business with Iran – “acts [that are] alleged to be the result of the defendants selling government influence in exchange for bribes from interests which have donated to The Clinton Foundation, paid huge speaking fees to the Clintons and other means.”


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/judge-sets-trial-for-rico-claims-against-clintons/#REbYER8JvZoVJzyx.99
1809  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: May 31, 2015, 11:19:37 PM
HILLARY'S TOP AIDE WITH TERROR TIES SAW ALL EMAILS
Exposed to highly-sensitive information regarding Benghazi

TEL AVIV – A full review of Hillary Clinton’s personal emails released last Friday by the State Department finds Clinton’s senior aide, Huma Abedin, was exposed to highly-sensitive U.S. government information.

It was Abedin who forwarded to Clinton’s personal email address details about the initial establishment of the U.S. special mission in Benghazi, updates about security threats to both the mission and Ambassador Chris Stevens, intelligence on the growing terrorist threat in Libya and insider information on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi.

Abedin was privy to emails that contained the exact movements of Stevens while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for any American diplomat.

WND previously reported on Abedin’s personal and family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other to Islamic supremacists.

The connections not only extend to her mother and father, who are both deeply tied to al-Qaida fronts, but to Abedin herself, as WND previously reported in a series of exposés.

While she worked at the State Department, Abedin was also a paid employee at Teneo, a strategic consulting firm that specializes in investment banking, business intelligence and restructuring services.

Emails exposed ambassador’s movements

In one of dozens of emails released last week that included Abedin as among its recipients, on April 24, 2011, Abedin forwarded to Clinton’s personal email an internal State Department email from that same day written by Timmy Davis and sent to Abedin as well as to the State Department email addresses of other employees, including Clinton’s then-foreign policy aide, Jacob Sullivan.

The email cited a local report stating hotels in Benghazi were being targeted.

The email stated the interim Libyan government “conducted a raid on a house/storage facility and found and arrested an Egyptian cell reportedly there for the purpose of attacking hotels.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/hillarys-top-aide-with-terror-ties-saw-all-emails/#vU1gZgsyXJix1Tzv.99
1810  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: May 31, 2015, 11:11:12 PM
KATHLEEN WILLEY: HILLARY A 'MONEY-HUNGRY HYPOCRITE'
Says Bill 'showing early signs of dementia'

Kathleen Willey, the former White House aide who claims President Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her in 1993 during his first term, now suspects the former president suffers from dementia, and calls Hillary Clinton a “money-hungry” hypocrite who looks “awfully haggard” and is the “worst role mother for a wife and a mother and a politician.”

Willey, author of the book “Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton,” made her scathing comments in an interview airing tonight on Aaron Klein Investigative Radio, broadcast on New York’s AM 970 and Philadelphia 990 AM, as well as online.

She is now seriously questioning the mental health of both of the Clintons.

“[Hillary] is really looking awfully haggard these days,” Willey said.

“After watching [Bill's] performance with [NBC News' Cynthia] McFadden, when he said that I’ve gotta pay my bills, I think he’s showing early signs of dementia or something. He’s not the old Bill Clinton that we all remember. I mean, he was all over the place. Now you’re seeing clips of [Hillary] talking to herself all the time. I think that I want somebody in there who knows what they’re doing, and money isn’t the No. 1 issue for them. They have enough money. They made $30 million … in the last 15 months on speaking engagements. Isn’t that enough?”

Speaking of Hillary Clinton’s behavior during those White House years, Klein said, “There’s no way Hillary did not know what was going on, that women were being abused and accosted by her husband. You took it further on my show. You said Hillary was the war on women.”


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/kathleen-willey-hillary-a-money-hungry-hypocrite/#yE4bVwUKz2ZzhLio.99
1811  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: May 31, 2015, 11:06:12 PM
Senators flash anger at Paul — and vice versa

Tempers are flaring in the Senate.

With lawmakers slated to take procedural votes later this evening on a bill to reform the PATRIOT Act, Sens. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) refused to yield the floor to fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul, who has promised to force a sunset of key parts national security law. The spat prompted a terse back-and-forth during a rare Sunday session prompted by Paul’s refusal earlier this month to allow votes on the issue.

With dozens of Senate onlookers donning “Stand with Rand” T-Shirts, Paul tried to interject as Coats and McCain were speaking in defense of of the National Security Agency. But McCain and Coats wouldn’t yield the floor.
Paul “needs to learn the rules of the Senate,” McCain sniped at the Kentucky Republican.

The dust-up is just the latest sign of discontent over Paul’s willingness to grind the Senate to a halt — annoyance that’s particularly on display among seasoned lawmakers and defense hawks like McCain.

When Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who was presiding over the chamber, said later that time for debate had expired, Paul was incensed. He said he had not gotten to speak and argued the time had been miscounted, even calling for a roll call vote to challenge Grassley’s rulings. Paul ultimately was allowed to speak for a few minutes, but not before McCain objected again to Paul speaking, and the typically tranquil Grassley raised his voice.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/senators-flash-anger-at-paul-and-vice-versa-118467.html#ixzz3blB6nHT0
1812  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Hillary Clinton Trustworthy? on: May 31, 2015, 10:54:34 PM
HILLARY’S LEADERSHIP HAS PLACED US IN GRAVE DANGER AROUND THE WORLD

On this weekends “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace,” Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said Hillary Clinton’s “leadership as secretary of state has placed us in grave danger around the world.”

Fiorina said “I come from a world where titles are just titles and talk is just talk. The questions I’m raising about Hillary Clinton, I take no delight in them. I’m concerned. you know, it is entirely legitimate when someone is running for the presidency of the United States to ask whether they are being transparent, whether they are trustworthy, whether they have a track record of leadership. Hillary Clinton has demonstrated over and over she is not transparent. Her leadership as secretary of state has placed us in grave danger around the world. These are entirely legitimate questions and questions I would ask of her on the general debate stage. questions that must be asked of her because the American people need to hear her answers.”

“She and bill Clinton are the personification of what 82 percent of Americans now consider the professional political class that is more concerned about preserving its power and its privilege than it is about doing the people’s business,” she continued. “It’s why 82 percent of the American people now think we need people from outside of the professional political class to serve in public office. Ours was intended to be a citizen government, by, for and of the people. so, she will clearly be the nominee of the Democrat party and our nominee must take the fight to her because we need to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016. Then we need someone in the oval office who can actually do the job.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/05/31/fiorina-hillarys-leadership-has-placed-us-in-grave-danger-around-the-world/
1813  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pro-Big Government Candidates for US President 2016 on: May 31, 2015, 10:44:20 PM
Scott Walker Has Early Lead in Iowa Poll as Jeb Bush Faces Challenges

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has expanded his early lead in Iowa, while former Florida Governor Jeb Bush continues to face headwinds and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida shows upside potential in the state that hosts the first 2016 presidential nomination balloting.

A new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows more than a third of likely Republican caucus participants say they would never vote for Bush—one factor in a new index to assess candidate strength in such a crowded field. Forty-three percent view him favorably, compared to 45 percent who view him unfavorably.

Walker is backed by 17 percent as the state enters a busy summer of candidate visits, a planned straw poll, and campaigning at the Iowa State Fair. Tied for second are Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 10 percent, with Bush and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee next at 9 percent each.

They're followed at 6 percent by Rubio and 2012 Iowa caucuses winner Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania. With eight months to go before the 2016 caucuses, there's plenty of time for movement.

More...http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-30/scott-walker-has-early-lead-in-iowa-poll-as-jeb-bush-faces-challenges
1814  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: May 31, 2015, 10:38:42 PM
THE LATEST: PAUL TAKES HEAT ON PATRIOT ACT, ISIS STANCES

3 p.m. (EDT)

Republican presidential hopeful George Pataki says GOP rival Rand Paul is putting the nation at risk for political purposes with his legislative tactics stalling the extension of the Patriot Act.

Pataki was New York governor in 2001 when the 9/11 terrorists struck. He says Paul's maneuvers in the Senate can only suspend parts of the anti-terrorism act for several days, not block them permanently, so letting those provisions expire has no value even for people who oppose them. He says Paul is "putting Americans at risk for a political reason."

The National Security Agency stands to lose legal authority to collect and search domestic phone records for connections to international terrorists unless senators find a way Sunday to avoid a lapse. Paul and other civil liberties advocates argue surveillance programs authorized by the NSA have not produced significant results in protecting Americans from terrorism.

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11:15 a.m. (EDT)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul certainly raised hackles in his own party when he blamed the rise of the Islamic State group on Republican hawks, and perhaps none has taken more offense than Louisiana's governor, Bobby Jindal.

Jindal was asked Sunday on ABC's "This Week" whether he would support Paul if the Kentucky senator became the Republican nominee. The governor said he doubts it'll come to that, because Paul probably won't win. Jindal is expected to say in coming weeks whether he will join the nomination contest.

Paul said last week that Republican hawks supported the indiscriminate spread of arms in the region where ISIS operates and some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of extremists. That led Jindal to say Paul is unsuited to be president. The governor says ISIS exists purely because of radical Islam.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CAMPAIGN_2016_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-31-10-48-37
1815  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pro-Big Government Candidates for US President 2016 on: May 31, 2015, 10:33:45 PM
Democrats Seek a Richer Roster to Match G.O.P.

WASHINGTON — Over the last few months, Harold M. Ickes, a longtime ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton, has helped organize private meetings around the country with union leaders, Clinton backers and Democratic strategists. The pressing topic: Who will step up to be the Democrats’ megadonors in the 2016 presidential race?

Republican contenders have already secured hundreds of millions of dollars in commitments from a stable of billionaires, including a Wall Street hedge fund executive, a Las Vegas casino magnate, a Florida auto dealer, a Wyoming investor and, of course, the Kansas-born billionaires David H. and Charles G. Koch. But none of the biggest Democratic donors from past elections — for example, the Chicago investor Fred Eychaner, the climate-change activist Tom Steyer and the entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg — have committed to supporting Mrs. Clinton on nearly the same scale.

“No one has stepped forward as the savior,” said Matt Bennett, a longtime Democratic consultant in Washington.

More...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/us/politics/democrats-seek-a-richer-roster-to-match-gop-in-2016-election.html?_r=0
1816  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Pro-Big Government Candidates for US President 2016 on: May 31, 2015, 10:28:25 PM
O'MALLEY SAYS HE'S READY TO CAMPAIGN HARD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- A day after jumping into the presidential race, Democrat Martin O'Malley vowed Sunday to fight hard in New Hampshire, home of the first presidential primary and a stronghold for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"I'm used to tough fights, I've always been drawn to them," O'Malley told reporters after greeting voters at a diner.

O'Malley kicked off his presidential bid Saturday and is making trips to the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. He is the third Democrat to enter the race, behind Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and still remains unknown by many voters. He has campaigned alongside New Hampshire candidates frequently in the last several elections, but is struggling to gain traction in a state where the Clintons have long been popular.

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"I did support her in 2008, I thought she was one of the best candidates for those times - but times change," O'Malley said. "One of the big challenges that we have yet to address in this country is reining in reckless behavior on Wall Street, and I believe we need new leadership to do that."

More...http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEM_2016_OMALLEY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-30-08-53-45
1817  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: May 31, 2015, 07:39:47 PM
Crunch time in US Senate as NSA spy programs set to lapse

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A senior administration official said switches would be turned off for the bulk collection servers beginning at 3:59 pm (1959 GMT) Sunday, and any collection after midnight would be deemed illegal, without congressional authorization.

"I do believe we have the votes" to pass the Freedom Act, Republican Senator Mike Lee, who supports ending NSA metadata collection, told CNN's State of the Union.

"At this point I think the question is not about whether we will get it passed, but when."

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican 2016 presidential candidate adamantly opposed to reauthorizing the surveillance, is threatening to use his parliamentary prerogative to delay votes on the reform bill or an extension of the original USA Patriot Act.

That could force the counterterrorism provisions to lapse until Wednesday, and possibly later.

- Political 'grandstanding' over security? -

Brennan did not mention Paul by name, but he expressed exasperation over the politicization of important programs which he insisted "have not been abused" by US authorities.

"Unfortunately I think there is a little too much political grandstanding and crusading for ideological causes that have really fueled the debate on this issue," he said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/crunch-time-us-senate-nsa-spy-programs-set-173946541.html
1818  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Syria crisis: 'Barrel bomb strikes kill 72' in Aleppo province on: May 31, 2015, 07:23:50 PM
I can't even comprehend living or functioning in these war torn areas that the US has some responsibility in screwing over. I guess that's what a modern civil war looks and feels like. That said, this is the first I've heard in recent times of the Syrian government taking action against ISIS. You'd think these chopper pilots would realize they're on suicide missions considering it would be so easy for these IS fux to take these things out w/ all the advanced US armaments they have.
1819  Economy / Securities / Re: How do you invest your bitcoin? on: May 31, 2015, 04:54:00 AM
Try your vestments at CVFS-CrytpoVest at this stage for a steady div payment. Good things are steadily coming along and you should be part of it. This is the best investment option at this point so go get some. This has paid a div for6 months now and I'd say all should get some awarenesson this spoke at this time.
1820  Other / Politics & Society / Re: CNN national poll: Rand Paul 13%, Bush 13%, Ryan 12%, Huckabee 10%, Christie 9% on: May 31, 2015, 04:33:45 AM
Rep. Thomas Massie endorses Rand Paul for president

NEWPORT — Calling for the GOP to nominate a different kind of Republican than the last two presidential contenders, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Vanceburg endorsed U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for President.

Massie told the crowd of about 100 at a rally in Newport, that Paul is the only GOP candidate who can win key the swing states in a presidential election against possible democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“I’m talking about Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado, these are states that we have lost for many years,” Massie said. “He’s winning those states in the polls.”

Massie later sent a written statement to the press on his endorsement, saying that Paul was the one who inspired him to run for Congress.

“More than anyone else, Rand understands that the entire Bill of Rights must be honored,” Massie said. “He inspired me to seek office, and I will continue to ‘Stand with Rand’ in his bid to defeat the Washington Machine and unleash the American Dream.”

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http://mycn2.com/politics/massie-endorses-rand-paul-for-president-as-paul-vows-to-block-patriot-act-extension
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